Under Our Big Circle Tree

• Chloe Goss, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2022

Under our big circle tree
Where we laugh and play all day
'Till someone picks out something astray
and gone is the laughter of the day.
You feel like lying at the bottom wondering 'where it all went so wrong?'
It's not like I know any better
but that it all seemed so much better
far away and not so long ago
won't you understand me? Of course I miss it.
But then again, life started again
it only seemed like deja vu. I miss you
but you're not really that far away
the laughter of the past is gone from my ears
I have gotten familiar through the years
I guess I'll call it fate and hope that it'll work out for me
under my big circle tree.